In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta
Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement
in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but
in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for
a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder.
Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan’s original
lonely hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed “one of America’s master outlaws."
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
July 02, 2013
The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt: Michigan's Original Lonely-Hearts Killer
In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta
Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement
in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but
in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for
a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder.
Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan’s original
lonely hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed “one of America’s master outlaws."